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A metrical foot of three short syllables of which two belong to the thesis and one to the arsis.

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  • Another point which appears worth mentioning is the following; The foot – screws were of brass, the tribrach, into which they fitted, was made of aluminium for the sake...
  • The two metals have a different coefficient of expansion, and while the feet fitted the tribrach at ordinary temperatures, they were quite loose at temperatures in the...
  • Fanniae of our day to talk of varying the trochee with the iambus, or of resolving either into the tribrach.
  • Juno, meantime, whose feelings were less affected, did not kneel at all; but, like a tribrach, amused herself with chasing a hare which just then crossed one of the...
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